is someone whose poems I admire very much. Part of the attraction seems her complete willingness to try anything to make the work bold and memorable. The poems follow no discernable form, look like average-to-bad free verse on the page--random line breaks, simple language-- it seems to me, and on first read you might find it easier to chuck them than face them straight-on, but that would be a terrible mistake. As Gardner said of Robert Penn Warren, read it again. Her books include The Cow and Coeur De Lion , and she also translates Baudelaire and Jean-Luc Hennig. Here's one from Everyday Genius . from THE PALACE OF JUSTICE when my boyfriend called the cops on me i waited in my room for them to come i waited a half hour and then another half hour this naked whiteness i could contrive to cleanse me officer i am in love and now my lover hate me always having dreamed of being a monk in a cell if i eat celery for ten days and with an ether commingle i could si...
Like the title says.